Tamluk, August 13: A court on Thursday remanded the driver of the truck, which had hit a car of the convoy of railway ministerMamata Banerjee on Monday night, to 12 day’s judicial custody.
The Tamluk sub-divisional judicial magistrate sent the driver, Gujjar Singh, to jail custody on the charge of attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy.
Singh’s truck had hit a car of Banerjee’s convoy near Kolaghat bridge when she was on her way back to Kolkata after addressing a rally at Lalgarh.
Singh was arrested by security personnel on the charge of rash and dangerous driving and handed over to the police. He was later released on bail. The truck was seized.
He was rearrested after local MP Subhendu Adhikari lodged a complaint that there was an attempt on the life of the Trinamool Congress chief.
–Agencies